Written by Camillus Ebault
ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 50 Boko Haram fighters were killed on Tuesday and seven members of Nigeria’s Infrastructure Security Force were missing following an insurgent ambush on a convoy monitoring a power grid facility in the country. A spokesperson announced that.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency for 15 years, mainly in the northeast, and although weakened by military and infighting, it remains a threat with deadly attacks against civilians and government targets. There is.
Babawale Afolabi, a spokesman for the Nigeria Civil Defense Corporation, a government agency set up to protect infrastructure, said security forces were ambushed by about 200 Boko Haram fighters while on a patrol mission.
More than 50 rebels were killed in the fighting, Afolabi said, adding that seven operatives were missing and search operations were underway in the bush. He said “several other members” of the security forces were injured.
Boko Haram is primarily active in the northeast, but Nigerian authorities say it also has an organization in Muslim-majority Niger state and has carried out attacks against military and civilians in the past. It says that there are.
In a separate attack in northeastern Borno state, a military spokesperson said last Saturday that five soldiers were killed by suspected insurgents.
